Christopher Moore's History News

I have mixed feelings about Substack and how it commodified and monetized the old blogosphere.  But my inbox today had three Canadian Substa...

Globally, historians are having rather a moment, while maybe the political guys are somewhat in disarray. Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy...

A pleasant thought to start the day with.  While every one of the other thirty teams still contending for the World Cup is facing a tough ni...

Historian and security analyst Wesley Wark has an (admittedly) provocative article up at The Walrus online today, setting out why Canada sh...

To my surprise, the Toronto Star published an article recently on the passing of the Italian historian Carlo Ginzberg .  It's from a wir...

After the by-election victory yesterday of Andy Burnham, a longtime power in the British Labour party, here is  what another party powerbrok...

I'm a bit irritated by a New York Times story, "One City Might Have Cracked the Housing Crisis," about a BC First Nation that ...

I was slow in giving a close read to the long story by Patrick White and Willow Fiddler about the Tk’emlúps Residential School and residenti...

Cory Doctorow or Michael Geist or someone may have already written an essay about why this phenomenon is a good thing.  But I found  Who Is ...

The Canadian Historical Association's recent Annual Meeting in Charlottetown included a giving of prizes.  According to Google's AI,...

" Doug Ford fires PC Caucus Chair " says the Toronto Star headline,   But why doesn't the PC caucus fire Doug Ford instead? Yo...

Jonas Vingegaard left, Derek Gee right The Giro d'Italia ended on Sunday with a crazy sprint through the streets of Rome, and I feel I h...

Now this is a historical conference! I don't understand why this year the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities is not holding ...